A Study Of Professor Zhao Changgeng Academic Thought Prequel

This dissertation, for the first time in the academe, makes a comprehensive analysis and study on Zhao Changgeng academic thought. Professor Zhao Changgeng is a pioneer of researching of modern urban planning theory in China. He is the principal expert of urban planning and landscape subject professionals in western region of China. He is one of the founders of the theoretical study of urban planning and landscape of Chongqing University. He is also the initiator of the mountainous inhabitation environmental research, and absolute authority of the traditional garden studying in western part of Sichuan.Review of his life. Professor Zhao Changgeng was born in March, 1920, in Chungzhou in Sichuan. In 1939, he attended the Yanjing University to learning Chinese literature. After graduation, he went to the national central university on Architecture degree. Then he obtained a diploma in architecture in 1946. He is so far the only person with literature and architecture bachelor's educational level. From 1950, he was working in school administration committee of Chengdu Art institute. In 1952, when the state department had an adjustment, institute on professional construction projects of 7 universities in southwestern of China consolidated and formed the Chongqing architectural engineering institute. Then he was teaching in that school until 1998 when he departed this life. In the meantime, he was sent to the Shanghai Tongji University and the Ministry of Construction to learning urban planning. When he came back, he provided assistance to establish the specialized field on urban planning in our school. From 1958 to 1978, for 20 years, when he was in the prime of life, he encountered the social transformation and the history of unrest. He almost completely stopped his research and professional education work. Since 1978, after suffering the revolution of the ideology, Professor Zhao Changgeng still returned to campus with passion, for teaching urban planning institute. Then he made important contributions for the protection of historical and city's cultural and to promote the development of landscape research after the China's reform and opening to the outside world. And he also left many interrelated works.This paper describes the consolidation in his field of study and theoretical thoughts.Zhao Changgeng was the earliest batch of researchers on the city aesthetic field, who made a big contribution in how to construct and beautify urban environment. He proposed remedies about how to understand the city aesthetics, how to study of aesthetic value, how to make up a nice urban environment, and how to mould the city distinguishing feature. Mr. Zhao Changgeng, studying on how to build cities with hills and waters, and the construction of urban landscape, published many articles. They are"construction of beautiful, civilization, clean city","urban culture and architecture, landscape, landscape culture","the theory on construction urban landscape, urban material civilization and spiritual civilization","rambling about urban landscape", and many other papers. These articles tell us the classification of urban landscape, planning ideas, and how to improve the urban landscape of benefit.The research of the city style and features is the important link in the process of Professor Zhao'exploring on urban planning and urban culture. His researching on protection of the historical cultural city told us that urban planning is very important to protect biodiversity, or make up a nice urban environment. This part of his research firstly analyzed the importance of building urban landscape features, then put forward how to protect the historical cultural cities, and how to continue the methodology of cities'historic style and features.Professor Zhao Changgeng ranged the traditional garden research with the landscape planning and tourism spot planning. Then he conclude the construction method for reasonable using, explored a new idea of tourism spot planning. Above is the part of the theories research.Professor Zhao Changgeng blended history culture and literary into professional theory research and project operation. He studied in the project design, originally blending with the history culture and the content of Chinese literature, including: cities and regions of historical culture, religious culture, traditional culture and ancient literature, poetry, painting, lyrics and couplet, etc. There are also much history-related and poetic and pictorial splendor in his work of architecture, urban planning and building traditional garden.